Language in the Judicial Process
Read more: Language in the Judicial ProcessLanguage in the Judicial Process is back up and running. The site, edited by Bethany Dumas, offers “current information of interest to all scholars interested in law and language as well as to legal practitioners.”
May 1999 NADS
Read more: May 1999 NADSThe latest newsletter of the American Dialect Society is available.
Shapiro, Garner Books Available
Read more: Shapiro, Garner Books AvailableFred Shapiro announced availability of his Oxford Dictionary Of American Legal Quotations and Bryan Garner’s Dictionary Of Modern Legal Usage, Second Edition. “With more than 9,000 definitions and more than 3,500 quotations on all aspects of the law, The Lawyer’s…
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